Thursday 11 March 2021

Cups of Tea

I recently turned 60 and decided to celebrate with a ladies lunch... 22 of us! My friend, Nadia, arranged the flowers on the table in my Royal Doulton Memory Lane tea set. My mother gave me this on my engagement all those years ago!

I decided to use the Altenew Vintage Teacup as my nameplates.  (Thank you Sandy Allnock for teaching us how to shade them - looks so real!)


I made little "tea bag tags" with the names.


I ordered the roses, but the Plumbago, Blue Peter, White Pentas are from my garden.


I love cold soup, so I gave everyone the choice for the starter between cucumber soup (with or without smoked salmon) or gazpacho.


Since I love tea so much, thought I'd make some teacups using some patterned paper. I have so much of it, but I rarely use it. So this is a different take on my "normal" ink and stamps approach.

  

Here are the 2 together - very different looks.

My entry to ...

... Twofer Challenge #36 : My choice : Teacups. I hope it's ok that one is not a card but a "nameplate".

... Make the Cards Challenge #7 : Coffee or Tea

... AAA Birthday #23 : Patterned Paper


... Timeout Challenge : Different





19 comments:

  1. WOW! Your teacups are gorgeous and your card design is exquisite! LOVE your tablescape ... stunning! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Make The Card Challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

    Darlene
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  2. What a fabulous fete, Janet! Everything is just beautiful and extremely well planned. The flowers are sensational! I love how you made such realistic teacups and used them for place cards and your pretty triple teacup friendship card is so charming! The shading is perfection. Happy milestone belated birthday! Thank you for playing again in TCC #36! Hugs, Darnell

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  3. Happy 60th Janet and what a BEAUTIFUL party you created with all the lovely shades of blue! Your card and name plate cards are all beautifully colored and coordinate so perfectly with your celebration! Thanks so much for sharing all this loveliness with us at The Twofer Challenge!! :0)

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  4. Awesome, Janet! A belated happy special birthday! I love the sweet place cards and the paper pieced teacups are beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us at The Twofer Challenge!

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  5. I love your teacups, such a clever idea brilliantly executed! And you stack of cups card is equally as beautiful.

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  6. How lovely! Belated happy birthday. Love your tea cup place card and your beautiful card which is my choice as winner, winner! Jo x

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  7. Belated bday wishes, Janet!! Wow - lucky you can have that many together - we can't yet... That teacup place card looks amazing and I love the stacked cup card too!!

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  8. This is gorgeous!! Those stacked cups look real! Happy birthday! Thank you for joining the Make the Cards Challenge! I hope you join us again often!

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  9. Happy birthday, Janet! What a fantastic decorated table! Flowers are stunning. It is a great idea to make nameplates in the shape of tea cup. It looks so real! Perfect shading. The friendship card is awesome. To use patterned paper to make this vintage teacups is just great.
    Thank you for playing again at TCC#36.
    Hugs, Sonja

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  10. I'm new to your blog so I first want to say a belated Happy Birthday! Secondly, I was blown away by your beautiful stamping and that absolutely gorgeous table setup for your birthday luncheon - it's all simply amazing!!

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  11. Lovely stamps. Beautiful.
    Thanks for sharing with us at Make the Card Challenge.
    Hope to see you again next challenge.
    Hugs,
    Mifta.
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  12. How beautiful! Love those stacked teacups and your use of patterned paper. Thanks for playing at AAA Birthday,hope to see you join in with future challenges too. Stay safe and keep crafting!

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  13. What an absolutely magnificent table setting! I love your place cards - I wish I had thought of this a few years ago for my tea-loving friend's 50th place cards and the name on the tea bag is a genius idea! And the card is just lovely and the sentiment so true! Congratulations on your birthday!

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  14. Such a sweet card, love it! Thanks so much for playing at AAA Birthday!

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  15. Oh WOW!! I adore those place cards. Such a fun way to make them. I love the second card too with the stacked tea cups. Your design is fabulous.

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  16. These are absolutely beautiful. I love blue and white tea cups. I would have loved to have sat down at that beautiful table. Great pictures.

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  17. Those are so cute, precious teacups, well done and thank you for playing at AAA Birthday Cards

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  18. Congrats on your milestone birthday - it looks like it must have been a wonderful celebration. Your name cards are gorgeous - I love how they are colour matched to the flowers :) Thanks so much for playing along with us at TIME OUT!

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